Gawd, it still burns my ass, what happened to me! I became aware of BTC right before it shot up to 15$ back in 2011 (I think it was 2011, the first "bubble") but at that time I was struggling to pay my bills and also didn't fully understand BTC enough to feel comfortable getting some, I could have been mining on my laptop really, I would have mined a few, more than I could right now with a 60Ghs, but I missed that boat. later, that summer, my mother passed away, and when I was talking with my siblings, they informed me there was money coming my way, and I should think about how I was going to use it. Not a fortune, but a substantial amount, and I should consider investing. Now the wheels started to turn! I really had no experience with such things and could only think of the traditional store of value type things like precious metals and real estate...stuff people with money but no real investing knowledge like to go to. PM and real estate are pretty safe bets, but I had already been looking at BTC and decided I would go for a nice healthy position, because I'm greedy and I wanted my nest egg to become a fortune!
Problem here is, inheriting money takes time, there is estate to settle, taxes to pay, lawyers and accountants blah blah blah. seemed like there was delay after delay, even though I was pestering my sister, the executor, to hurry the fuck up...I could feel the pressure building, and the more I learned about BTC the more I heard promises of The Moon AND watched the price slowly creep up. By the time I had money in my account it was early 2013 and BTC was already beginning its rise into what became the great 100$+ bubble of that spring. They were already 20$ each and I was restricted by these n00b exchanges who had really restrictive deposit limits and weren't the most trust worthy either.
Long story a little shorter; I was throwing 2000$ daily at this cash deposit exchange, running to my bank, every day seeing the price go from 20 to 40 to 60 to 80 to 100, all in the space of about 2 weeks, and by the time btc hit 100$ per coin it was getting too rich for my blood, I had spent my limit for that part of my portfolio and I had spent as much on BTC as I could afford to lose without killing myself so I stopped buying with only a little over 100BTc to my name. Not too bad really, but not the thousand plus I originally dreamed of getting. Had I been more solvent a little bit earlier, even a week or two earlier, I would have 10x or more BTC and would already be a millionaire.
On the bright side, I bought a nice stack of gold and silver which is being very nice to me right now.
TL;DR As Get Smart used to say "missed it by
that much"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPwrodxghrw
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